Re: netpbm vs. pbmplus
brian white writes:
>>Am I really the only one who sees virtue in separate directories for
>>large groups of related programs to help keep our filesystem
>>organized?
>
>No, you're not. Personally, I prefer to have large packages have
>their own directory. I posted a solution for making it easy to
>modify a system-wide default path, so why not take advantage of
>it? The PATH env var is there for just these uses.
I, too, think that subdirectories of /usr/bin is a Good Thing.
Packages which contain large numbers of commands run a great risk of
namespace pollution, and this seems like an elegant way to avoid it.
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Richard Kettlewell richard@uk.geeks.org http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/
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